The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-28
Washington County.



debtedness of the corporation the district
to have deed of the property. Now If
the district, having secured one of the best
sites for a school-building, will in due time
remove the old buildings, grade the grounds
and put up a suitable building for graded
school, we can have as good school-build-
ing as any in the state. There are already
three hundred forty scholars of school age
in the district, and with the rapid increase
of business here and the incoming popula-
ton there will soon be five hundred chill
dren to attend our village school, which has
loudly called for more room. - The first
fall meeting of the Green Mountain Trotting
Association, last Saturday, drew out a large
crowd, thirteen hundred tickets being sold
at the gate. - A number of our citizens
are taking advantage of the low rates of
travel to visit New York. 80 An infant
child of V. f. Lindsay died last Wednesday
evening. - H. G. Leonard's team drew
block of granite from the quarries Mon
day which weighed about twenty-five tons.
Twenty-Five horses and six men did the
work. 80 There is to be course of lee
lures here this winter, some able talent
having already been secured. - The
Central Vermont railroad have a man in
town settling the land damages on the Will
JAMESTOWN extension, which is being salts
factorily done in most cases. - The
ladies of the Congregational church will
give harvest sociabe Friday evening of
this week All are cordially invited. -
Rev. j. f. Rhoades and wife have returned
from Washington to their old home at III.
S. Martins. They think the air and scenery
of Washington better than the city for a sum
mer stay. = Mrs Ira Boutwell, died sud
denly last Friday morning of heart disease.
The funeral was from the house Sunday,
Rev. Mr.. Swinnerton of Plainfield offici-
ating. She leaves a large family Of children,
the youngest of which is only few weeks
old. - Rev. Sullivan F. Gale, Jr., for
merly of Plainfeld and now of Florida, occu-
pied the desk at the Congregational church
Sunday afternoon, and Rev. p. b. Fisk
of Florida preached in the evening. -
Mrs. w. A. Perry has gone to st. Johns
bury to visit her son Clayton and attend the
fair. Miss Kate West of the post-ofiice ac-
companied her - Miss Emily Cooper,
lady clerk in the Parlor drugstore, has gone
to New York to visit an uncle living there.
- Miss Amy Gale has returned from
the White Mountains and is soon to go to
Bermuda to spend another winter, she
being employed there last winter. -
II. E. Packer, MD, is on the sick
list having been threatened with typhoid
fever. ~ w. Arthur Watson, former
clerk in G. 2. Boyce's clothing-store goes
to Boston next week. where he is to work
in piano factory and is to learn the busi-
ness of tuning pianos. - Fred Mudgett
is quite i'll with inflammation of the bowels
- Rev. j. f. Rhoades took Mrs
Rhoades' Sunday-school class of nineteen
for ride to Washington and days outing
a very pleasant time is reported. - 1t
is reported that James NJ. Smith has sold his
farm, stock, hay, grain etc. Price paid,
$4,000, the Central Vermont railroad being
the purchaser. - Henry Wood and fam
lily of Boston are stopping at w. A. Perry's
and visiting friends in town. - b. j.
Tierney and George Clark are each erecting
houses on land east of Currier park
Homer Fits has his house on South Main
street nearly ready for occupancy. c. A.
Wheaton and Virgil f. Ayers are each
erecting houses on the Ayers meadow,
near the trotting-grounds. - G. |. jack
son intends occupying his new house Octo-
Der 1st. - w. II. Gladding has bought
of John Trow the " Blue Store" and has
rented all of the second and third floors to
George W. Lang, Mr.. Lang taking posses
sion the 1st of October. - w. F. Colby
Il Co. have bought out ID. 4. Blair & Co. s
furniture business and taken possession.
Cabot.
REMEMBER the town meeting Saturday
next at one o'clock. - Mr.. l.. G. Fisher
completed the filling of his silos last Friday.
He had ten acres of corn which yielded two
hundred tons of fodder. The cost of put
ting it into the silos was forty-fve cents per
ton. This amount of ensilage, according to
the estimates given, should be equal to
seventy tons of hay. - The Boston mail
now arrives at half-past six p. NJ, instead of
half-past nine, and the mail for Mont
| pelier leaves at four 2. NJ. - Sarah p.
Fisher started for her new home in Wiscon-
| sin last Tuesday. - Hugh Everett has
left the hotel and is succeeded by Will Ben
nett of Wolcott.
THE Sabbath-school will hold a concert
| Wednesday evening, October 9th, at the
vestry of the Christian house of worship
! All are invited.
East Calais.
THE Sunday-school will give a harvest
concert in place of the usual morning serv.
ice next Sunday. Those who have offer
ings to present are requested to carry them
to the church as early in the day Saturday
as convenient.
North Montpelier.
OUR nine captured the Montpelier Union
! School nine in game of baseball on our
| grounds last Saturday, the score standing
! forty-two to six in favor of our boys. -
The money has been raised and the com
mittee has hired Rev. S. G. Hayford to
preach at the North and East villages for
the year ensuing. Services will begin at the
usual hours at both churches. - Let
no one forget the match game of base
ball-North Montpelier Us. Goddard Sem
inary-on our grounds next Saturday at two
O'Clock r. M Give the boys a grand turn
out. - Truman LeBarron who has been
Ill with typhoid fever, is reported better.
Marshfield.
THE Womans Christian Temperance
Union will meet with the president, Mrs. j.
E. Eddy, at her rooms in DR.. Carvers
house Friday of this week at two o'clock
p NJ. All who are interested in the cause
are invited to be present. - Rev. G.. II.
Farnsworth will preach in the Methodist
church Sunday, October =. Communion
services will be held in the afternoon.
Martin Newton and wife have gone TO
Woodstock to visit friends. - G. o.
Davis has gone to New York city this week.
He bought Reindeer PAGER of II. G. Lull
while waiting for the train in Montpelier.
Middlesex Center.
THEold Wiley homestead, two miles north
of here, is to be sold at auction next Tues
day, with stock and tools. This farm was
settled some seventy years ago by Hubbard
Wiley and has been in the family ever since.
- Our crops are mostly gathered and
on the whole are fairly good. The crops of
hay aud corn are very good, that of wheat,
oats, potatoes and beans very light and apples
and small fruits about an average. -
Fred A. Richardson has been quite i'll for the
last few days
Shady Rill.
A SMALL crop of potatoes is reported
some fields rotting badly. - Mr.. and
Mrs. John p. Flint are visiting friends in
Massachusetts. - John w. Markham,
who was so severely injured "A week ago last
Saturday by being thrown from separator
that he was moving, is still confined to the
house. His daughter, Mrs. Wesley f.